My son-in-law’s grandmother descends from Thomas Bedient, who came to this country sometime before 1695. He settled in Fairfield County, CT. The family stays in Fairfield for about a century, when great-grandson Mordecai moves to Butternuts, Otsego County, NY before the 1810 census. His brother Isaac follows sometime after the …
In Friesland many kids and also the adults wore clogs, especially in the winter. I liked walking in clogs, no wet feet, in the snow we made long sliding paths, which was much easier with clogs than with shoes. Sometimes a thick layer of snow would stick under the clogs, …
My sister had given our mother a notebook, with the suggestion she writes down some of her memories. While she was originally reluctant to do so, she did in the end fill almost the entire book. I will occasionally reproduce some of her memories here. The Kerosene Lamp We had …
My Almelo database is a fairly big project, I have 28503 people in that project. Many people from Almelo went to Amsterdam for a variety of reasons. Girls went to go in domestic service (even middle class girls), boys to learn a trade or for commerce. And this was not …
Johan (dutch link) and Thomas (dutch link) were the first ten Bruggencates to come to the US. They came in 1847, on the barque ‘Doggersbank.’ Both had married twice before, Thomas lost two wives and two newborn daughters within a year and a half; Johan’s first wife died after 5 yrs of …
Trees in the backyard In the back of the yard of one of our houses in Zwolle were three horse chestnuts. They …
The Broekman family in Indonesia. Seated in Front of the Indian Regent’s house, where they were temporarily living in 1916. Left to …
A while ago I received a question about Gerhardus Warnerus ten Bruggencate (dutch link), because the questioner had a postcard, that GWtB had …
Most ten Bruggenkates in England descend from two sons of Albertus ten Bruggenkate (dutch link) and Willemina Weijdeman (In the Amsterdam and English …
I never knew my paternal grandmother Hendrika Johanna, Dieks for short (dutch link), she died several years before I was born. Although …
